Pre-seed companies are in the earliest stages of development, often pre-product or pre-revenue. These startups typically raise under $1M to validate their concept and build their initial team.
Explore 9,222 recently funded pre-seed companies with lead investors, funding amounts, and founding team data.
| Industry | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Finance | 2 | $1.3M |
| Apps | 2 | $900K |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | 2 | $824K |
| Agentic AI | 2 | $2.4M |
| Credit | 1 | $630K |
| Coffee | 1 | $5.4M |
| E-Commerce | 1 | $2.0M |
| Legal Tech | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Cycling | 1 | $777K |
| Information Technology | 1 | $500K |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| London | 2 | $1.8M |
| New Castle | 1 | $630K |
| Toronto | 1 | $5.4M |
| Sydney | 1 | $250K |
| Bogotá | 1 | $2.0M |
| Istanbul | 1 | $650K |
| Kirkland | 1 | $1.3M |
| Berlin | 1 | Undisclosed |
| Nottingham | 1 | $777K |
| Redwood City | 1 | $500K |
Blackcopper is a financial service provider that offers investment opportunities, business loans, and lifestyle payments services.
Congo Coffee & Toronto Beignets is the coffee shop.
Cutting Edge Capital develops algorithms and analytical infrastructure that enhance the profitably of trading in global financial markets.
Favik is an online platform that sets business for influencers.
Heralogy is an AI-based astrology application that offers consulting services online.
Kizuna connects families with independent caregivers, offering affordable, personalized care with seamless support and coordination.
FINE is building Germanys’s first consumer rights platform, that helps consumers to enforce their claims digital, hassle- & risk free.
WAU is a designer and developer of long range electric mobility/bikes targeting range anxiety.
Dart is a project and task management tool for startups that saves small teams a third of their project management time.
Finsimco provides financial services such as real-life investment banking simulations to financial firms and business schools.
Pathloom is the first all-in-one app designed to help hikers, campers, and outdoor recreation users more easily plan their outdoor trips.
StepEx is a marketplace for the sale of a share in future income for the funds to study as a non-correlated high yield asset class.
BiUP Seja Mais is a education and training technology company for adults for development.
DIVE is a social app with dating applications for Gen Z connecting the users through gaming.
Lavish Loyalty is an advertising company that offers networking and loyalty platform for small to medium business.
ShiftRight offers an AI-powered sales team with digital SDRs to automates lead generation and personalized outreach, all via an AI platform
Magnetic is an AI tax platform that automates data entry from client documents into tax software with high accuracy.
Longform.ai generates business insights from vast quantities of audio, such as podcasts and webinars.
Pledger allows you to take your savings as collateral in order to take out a loan.
Kali Healthcare is a multidisciplinary team of obstetricians and engineers dedicated to revolutionizing pregnancy monitoring
Project Copilot is a AI for software project management.
AI as a service platform for clinical data infrastructure and interoperability, initially focused on oral healthcare
Revolver Therapeutics develops peptide therapeutics using a screening platform to target transcription factors for cancer treatment.
Sindri builds Agentic Execution AI for the Energy Industry. Where others build software that advises, Sindri delivers outcomes.
Yottar is developing a platform that connects clean energy infrastructure projects with available grid capacity.
Pre-seed funding is the earliest formal stage of startup financing. At this point, founders are typically working on validating an idea, building a prototype, or conducting initial customer discovery. Many pre-seed rounds come from personal savings, friends and family, angel investors, or early-stage accelerators. The company is usually pre-revenue and may not yet have a fully built product.
$50K - $2M
The actual amount varies based on market conditions, company traction, and investor appetite.
Pre-seed capital is generally used to build a minimum viable product (MVP), conduct customer interviews, hire the first one or two team members, and cover operating expenses while the founders validate their assumptions about the market.
Friends and family, angel investors, micro-VCs, and startup accelerators like Y Combinator, Techstars, and 500 Global are the most common pre-seed investors. Some institutional seed funds also participate in pre-seed rounds when they see exceptional founding teams.
At the pre-seed stage, investors focus less on traction metrics and more on the founding team, market opportunity, and the clarity of the problem being solved. A compelling pitch, evidence of domain expertise, and early user interest or waitlist signups can be enough to secure funding.
Based on 9,222 pre-seed companies tracked in the VCBacked database, here is a snapshot of current funding activity at this stage.
Finding companies that have recently raised pre-seed funding is valuable for sales teams, investors, recruiters, and service providers. Pre-Seed startups are actively spending their newly raised capital on tools, talent, and services, making them ideal prospects. VCBacked tracks 9,222 pre-seed companies with verified founder contact information, updated regularly as new rounds are announced.
You can narrow your search by filtering companies by industry vertical, city or region, or by exploring specific combinations such as Pre-Seed finance companies. Each company profile includes funding details, founder names, and contact information to help you reach out directly.
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